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dmplusDynaMed Plus is now available!  DynaMed Plus is a new interface for DynaMed which provides users with a sleeker look and improved functionality.  DynaMed Plus includes:

  • Overviews and Recommendations provide concise, accurate overviews for the most common conditions as well as evidence-based recommendations for action.
  • Micromedex® Clinical Knowledge Suite drug content includes medication management and lab recommendations, including IV screening, medication advisory screening and summary drug information.
  • Graphics and Images comprise more than 2,500 medical graphics and images with over 1000 images from the American College of Physicians.
  • Improved search results are due to a redesign from the ground up, focused on time-to-answer for the busy clinician.
  • Mobile-Optimized Access provides interface customized to the screen size of your phone or mobile device.

Alongside, DynaMed Plus’s improved interface, users can still rely on DynaMed’s core features including:

  • Daily Updates - New evidence is added to DynaMed Plus multiple times each day, ensuring you always have the most current information.
  • Expert Reviewers - subject-specific experts who review topics using the DynaMed Plus proprietary 7 Step EBM Process and the 9-Step Quality Process for creating content.
  • Specialty Content - a wide array of specialty topics in areas such as infectious disease and immunology, cardiology, oncology and emergency medicine.
  • DynaMed Plus App - Users can install DynaMed Plus content to their phone or handheld device to have guaranteed access to DynaMed’s evidence-based content even in areas without phone or wifi service.

If you have any questions regarding DynaMed Plus, please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu).

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dmplusOn July 1, DynaMed interface will be updated with a sleeker look and improved functionality.  The new interface is called DynaMed Plus and includes:

  • Overviews and Recommendations provide concise, accurate overviews for the most common conditions as well as evidence-based recommendations for action.
  • Micromedex® Clinical Knowledge Suite drug content includes medication management and lab recommendations, including IV screening, medication advisory screening and summary drug information.
  • Graphics and Images comprise more than 2,500 medical graphics and images with over 1000 images from the American College of Physicians.
  • Improved search results are due to a redesign from the ground up, focused on time-to-answer for the busy clinician.
  • Mobile-Optimized Access provides interface customized to the screen size of your phone or mobile device.

Alongside, DynaMed Plus’s improved interface, users can still rely on DynaMed’s core features including:

  • Daily Updates - New evidence is added to DynaMed Plus multiple times each day, ensuring you always have the most current information.
  • Expert Reviewers - subject-specific experts who review topics using the DynaMed Plus proprietary 7 Step EBM Process and the 9-Step Quality Process for creating content.
  • Specialty Content - a wide array of specialty topics in areas such as infectious disease and immunology, cardiology, oncology and emergency medicine.
  • DynaMed Plus App - Users can install DynaMed Plus content to their phone or handheld device to have guaranteed access to DynaMed’s evidence-based content even in areas without phone or wifi service.

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Health care providers are inundated with information on a daily basis and cannot be expected to remember every morsel of information for every disease or treatment option.
That’s why they turn to point-of-care tools like DynaMed and Epocrates Essentials to help them answer their clinical questions. Find out what information they search for most.
Here’s a list of the top 10 searches in DynaMed:
  • Hypertension
  • COPD
  • Pneumonia
  • UTI
  • Diabetes
  • Gout
  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Asthma
  • Pancreatitis
  • Stroke
DynaMed is available via web access and also as an app that installs the latest evidence-based information to your phone, tablet, or other mobile device.  To get DynaMed onto your device, check out Himmelfarb Library's App Shelf.  If you have questions, please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu).

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Lexicomp appIt's time to renew (or install) your Lexicomp app!   Lexicomp is a comprehensive clinical drug information app  including Lexi-Drugs, a drug interaction tool, and an extensive library of clinical calculators.  Lexicomp is available both via web access and as an app that you can install on your phone, iPad or other handheld device.  The Lexicomp app is free and Himmelfarb Library's subscription allows you to install Lexicomp's high-quality drug information to your phone, iPad or other handheld device.
If you're new to Lexicomp, please follow these instructions:
  1. Access Lexicomp and click on the link on the right-hand menu for ‘Mobile App Access.’
  2. Make a note of the authorization code provided.
  3. Access  http://www.lexi.com/account/code and create an account.
  4. In the Subscriptions section, locate Add a Subscription by Code and enter the authorization code.
  5. Download the free Lexicomp app, then login to the app using your  Lexicomp login/password.
And, if you're already a Lexicomp user and just need to renew, please follow these instructions:
  1. Access Lexicomp and click on the link on the right-hand menu for ‘Mobile App Access.’
  2. Make a note of the authorization code provided.
  3. Access  http://www.lexi.com/account/code and login with your Lexicomp login/password.
  4. In the Subscriptions section, locate Add a Subscription by Code and enter the authorization code.
  5. On your phone/iPad/handheld, open the Lexicomp app and select ‘Update’.

You can find additional clinical apps on Himmelfarb Library's App Shelf. Please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu) with questions.

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AccessMedicine has incorporated a great news feature,  2 Minute Medicine.  2 Minute Medicine originates with Marc Succi, MD, a physician at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and is designed to help health care professionals sift among new journal articles for the highest quality evidence.  2 Minute Medicine focuses on identifying the highest impact medical literature and interpreting those articles for health care professionals.

2 Minute Medicine is available via AccessMedicine; a link appears in both the Readings area and the AccessMedicine homepage.  Each 2 Minute Medicine item provides:
  • Bullet points describing the primary findings of the article.
  • An evidence rating level
  • A study rundown describing past research on this topic and this study's findings
  • Links to the full-text of the original study
  • In-depth - a more detailed look at the methodology and results of the study.
AccessMedicine is available from the Himmelfarb Library homepage and provides access to more than 100 full-text books including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Goodman & Gilman's: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Hurst's The Heart, and Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine.  AccessMedicine also provides access to numerous Lange titles, videos, case files and cases, and self-assessment tools.

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networkProQuest will be updating its systems infrastructure for an eight (8) hour period beginning at 10:00 PM ET on Saturday, March 12.  During this time, the following Proquest resources will not be available:  Proquest Research Library Plus (including full-text journal articles), ProQuest Environmental Science Collection, and RefWorks.

 

Image citation: ShellyS. (2008).  IMG_9581 [Online image].  Available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shellysblogger/3003797689/in/photostream/

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Himmelfarb Library has found a great new resource for our students, faculty and staff!

bioPreprint is a one-stop-shop for research articles from pre-print databases, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Sciences Library System.

What is a pre-print database? It is a database to which scientists submit their pre-published work, typically in exchange for feedback prior to submitting to journals. Articles in preprint databases are not peer-reviewed, but are heavily screened for plagiarism and other offenses.

Many biomedical journals support what is called the “pre-print movement,” although not all accept research that has been pre-published. But with the growing need for up-to-date research, as demonstrated with the outbreak of the Zika virus, more journals may change their tune.

Prior to bioPreprint, there was no easy way to find pre-printed research articles, especially since these databases are not indexed. Fortunately, now the latest research can be found quickly and simply.

 

Image source: http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/resources/preprint

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Himmelfarb Library is excited to introduce a new resource: MedPix!

MedPix is the newest database from the National Library of Medicine.  Over 30 years in the making, this cross-platform study tool helps improve users’ ability to read scans and x-rays to diagnose and propose treatment.

Medpix is organized by disease location (organ system), patient profiles, image classification, and image caption.  There are over 53,000 images indexed in the database from over 13,000 patients.  Cases include both common and rare conditions.  By viewing the Case of the Week (COW) or by choosing a case, there are the options to either learn about the condition through the demographic and case info, or to quiz yourself with just the patient information and the case images.  For each case, there is a multiple-choice quiz to test your knowledge on the specifics of the condition, with references that link out to PubMed articles.  Future development of this resource over the next 12 months will include registration options, searching functionality, and the potential to gain CME credits.  Follow MedPix on Twitter for updates @nlm_lhc #MedPix.

Want more options for medical images?  Check out lists of image resources on our SMHS, MISPH, and SON webpages as well as on our Active Learning Research Guide.

 

[Image of Carotid Vagal Paraganglioma]. (2016). Retrieved from https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/home

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Aedes_aegypti141Zika virus is on the news, the topic of patient questions, and a concern for healthcare providers.  Himmelfarb Library has the Zika virus information that you need:

 

Image source: Rafaelgilo (No date). Aedes aegypti , one of the transmitters Zika virus [online image].  Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aedes_aegypti141.jpg

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networkOn Saturday January 16, ProQuest will upgrade its systems and some resources will not be available including RefWorks, Proquest Research Library Plus (including full-text e-journal holdings), and ProQuest Environmental Science Collection.  Affected Proquest resources will not be available for an eight (8) hour period lasting from 10 p.m. on Saturday January 16 to about 6 a.m. on Sunday January 17.  If you have any questions, please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu) or Himmelfarb Library (himmelfarb@gwu.edu).

 

Image citation: ShellyS. (2008).  IMG_9581 [Online image].  Available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shellysblogger/3003797689/in/photostream/

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